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OPEN DISCUSSION #1
Posted by Jeff (Guest) jeff@attoz.com - Monday, December 12 2005, 8:11:48 (CET)
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PROBLEM/ISSUE TO BE DISCUSSED:
WHO? King Abgar.
WHAT? His letter to Jesus, and alleged cure.
WHERE? Mesopotamia (Edessa?).
WHEN? In Jesus' time.
WHY? The King got sick, and wrote a letter to Jesus asking him for a miracle cure. Jesus did not come to cure him, however the story states that one of Christ's disciples cured him, and as a result he made his entire kingdom Christian. This resulted the first Assyrian Christian Nation.

RESPONSE:
The following was taken from Wikipedia:

"The Abgar legend enjoyed great popularity in the East, and also in the West, during the Middle Ages: Jesus' letter was copied on parchment, inscribed in marble and metal, and used as a talisman or an amulet. Of this pseudepigraphical correspondence there survive not only a Syriac text, but an Armenian translation as well, two independent Greek versions, shorter than the Syriac, and several inscriptions on stone.

A curious legendary growth has sprung up from this imaginary occurrence, with scholars disputing whether Abgar suffered from gout or from leprosy, whether the correspondence was on parchment or papyrus, and so forth. Most testimony of the 5th century, for instance Augustine and Jerome, is to the effect that Jesus wrote nothing. The correspondence was rejected as apocryphal by Pope Gelasius I and a Roman synod (c. 495). Biblical scholars now generally believe that the letters were fabricated, probably in the 3rd century AD, and "planted" where Eusebius eventually found them. Another theory is that the story was fabricated by Abgar IX of Osroene, during whose reign the kingdom became Christianized, as a way of legitimizing this religious transformation."


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